The ninth round of the 2004/2005 La Liga season can be said to be a strong team to fight each other. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw away by Athletic Bilbao.

Defending champions Valencia were also held to a 1-1 draw at home by Atletico Madrid.

In this way, after the ninth round of the league, people pay attention to the situation of the La Liga standings and are surprised to find that the team ranked fourth in the league is actually Sporting Gijón!

Barcelona are top of the league with 23 points.

In second place in the league is Sevilla FC with 17 points.

Then there is Sporting Gijón in third place in the league with 16 points!

Behind Sporting Gijón, there is another dark horse that has been promoted, and Levante also has 16 points, but because of the small goal difference, it ranks fourth in the league.

They are followed by defending champions Valencia with 15 points.

Then there is Espanyol in fifth place in the league with 14 points.

Atletico Madrid also has 14 points and is sixth on goal difference.

Zaragoza also sit seventh in the league with 14 points.

After losing to Sporting Gijón in this round, Real Madrid's 13 points have not changed, ranking eighth in the league!

The whole of Spanish football was in shock.

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Sporting Gijón and Levante, the two promoted horses, actually pressed behind the three giants of Valencia, Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid, and entered the top four of the league.

Levante, on the other hand, is fourth in the league largely because they have a favourable schedule and have not faced any other giants except Sevilla and Atletico Madrid. Moreover, Levante lost 0-3 away to Sevilla, only a narrow 1-0 home win over Atletico Madrid, and the result against the strong team was not good, but it was just a good performance against other relatively weak teams.

Sporting Gijón can finish third in the league, which is a bit scary, they have met Deportivo La Coruna and Real Madrid in the league, and won against quasi-strong teams such as Athletic Bilbao and Zaragoza.

Previously, even if Sporting Gijón defeated Deportivo La Coruna, Spanish football still looked at this team with colored glasses when it came to the promoted horses, but after the 4-0 slaughter of the mighty Real Madrid away from home, Spanish football was shocked, and they began to realize that this promoted team is extremely ferocious, and may not be able to look at this team with the same eyes as promoted horses.

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On the team's way back to Gijón from Madrid the next morning, the players were scrambling to circulate the latest newspapers, looking at the La Liga standings above, and seeing Sporting Gijón in third place, all with a smile of pride and pride on their faces.

The team's vice-captain Hierro and Albertini are also communicating softly, and the two veterans are also emotional, when they decided to come to Sporting Gijón to spend the last time of their careers, they never thought that this promoted polo team would burst out with such energy, nine rounds of league play, they actually beat Valencia, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Deportivo and other teams, ranking third in the league!

"Agreeing to come to Gijón may be the best decision he made in his career!" Albertini looked at the league rankings in the newspapers, and his heart was also full of mixed feelings.

The players of Sporting Gijón cheered, and the fans of Sporting Gijón were even more excited.

When the team's bus returned to Gijón, there were even fans who drove out to greet them, and then followed and escorted the team's bus all the way back to the Mareo training base.

The Red and White Army, which has been sinking for many years, will burst out with huge energy once they return to La Liga, and their current results and rankings are not far behind compared to the most glorious era of the team!

"Red and White Army!"

"King of the North!"

The fans shouted loudly and screamed at the top of their voices.

Leon opened the window and made a triumphant gesture to the fans, which immediately ignited all the passion!

"Lee!"

"Lee!"

"Lee!"

Hierro looked at this scene and smiled, their head coach is really very young, very passionate, energetic, of course...... It's also very sassy!

Hierro has experienced Capello, Bosque, Heynckes, Hiddink and other famous coaches during his time at Real Madrid, compared with those famous coaches, Leon is too young, this young coach makes Hierro feel novel, absolutely very interesting, and now, the old captain of Real Madrid has also begun to admire Leon in his heart, and it is indeed very level to be able to bring a promoted polo team to the current results.

Hierro can feel that the entire Sporting Gijón team is full of passion and momentum like the young manager, and even Hierro, a veteran, feels as if he is a few years younger, which feels good.

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For a long time, there are few super dark horses in La Liga, this is because unlike the Premier League, which generally benefited from the broadcast sharing plan, which led to each team getting huge profits to enrich the squad, the broadcast sharing of La Liga teams is at the expense of each team, which means that Real Madrid, Giants such as Barcelona and Valencia are independent income, which far exceeds the funds obtained by other non-giant teams, and Real Madrid and Barcelona benefit from the advantages of membership and century-old giants, all kinds of sponsorship contracts have come one after another, making it easier to organize capital investment, so they have completely exploded the rest of the La Liga teams in terms of purchasing power.

The small teams in La Liga have very little income in terms of broadcast revenue, which means that there is not enough money, and without funds, it is difficult to recruit and enhance their strength.

A few seasons ago, there was a dark horse called Alaves, which shocked La Liga football and Europe, but in the end, Alaves was only a flash in the pan, and the players were also divided up by the major European giants.

And now, the emergence of Sporting Gijón and Levante, especially Sporting Gijón of Li Ang, has once again made people see the scene of dark horses.

Now, it can be said that Sporting Gijón has aroused the interest of the entire Spanish football world and the media, who want to see how far Sporting Gijón has become a dark horse.

"When Alaves is still sinking in La Liga, the appearance of promoted Atletico Mahijon shines in our eyes, this is a very special club, their head coach is Chinese, their manager is very young, some of the players in your team are young, their player composition is also very interesting, sixteen or seventeen years old, Players in their twenties and veterans in their thirties, have become the main force of the team, this team can play very conservatively, pursue defensive counter-attacking tactics, and Real Madrid's 4-0 is an example, they can also play offensive football, 8-0 slaughter of Zaragoza, 4-1 victory over Deportivo La Coruna, especially the game against Super Laco, Sporting Gijón's attack is picturesque, their manager is extremely passionate, their players are enthusiastic, the appearance of such a team is a surprise in La Liga this season, I am now very interested in this team, their head coach Leon, I am really looking forward to it, I am very concernedto see how far they can go and what results they can achieve......" - says José Vera, a well-known football columnist for the Spanish national news agency EFE, in his newsletter column.

The name of his column is called: "Dark Horse Vertical"!

The background image used is a screenshot of the real-time La Liga standings, with Sporting Gijón in third place, which is extremely eye-catching!

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